Want To See A Scorecard Of Votes By Members Of The Georgia General Assembly?

Well, now you can! Dr. Bert Loftman of Northeast Georgia (was one of ten folks running for the old GA-9 congressional seat in 2010) has compiled a scorecard of how members of the Georgia House and Senate on pieces of legislation. He has the categories by which he judges the legislation and how the legislators vote on his site. He gave props to a few house and senate members for very conservatively this past legislative session:

The criteria for Dr. Loftman’s opinions reflected on the site may cause legislators to consider future legislation from different perspectives. It’s always helpful to try to foresee unintended consequences rather than having to revise or repeal legislation during the next session. Meanwhile, peoples lives and business are impacted while waiting for the next session.

There are links to the Legislature website for every bill considered in the rating. Read the legislation in its final version, as sent to the Governor for signature. You will find that some contain amendments that are absolutely unrelated to the title and summary.

In 2010, House Bill 1055 (Drivers License Fees bill) was amended to include the text of HB307 (Hospital Bed Tax) plus dozens of other bills that increased revenues (taxes and fees) on more than a hundred things including birth/death certificates, fertilizer, organic foods, pet food, court documents, etc, etc, etc. . . .

I’m fairly conservative and for example agree with Buzz Brockway votes across the board, yet he received only a gentleman’s “C”. Whoever produced this was libertarian to an extreme. However, as a person with limited time to check on individual records, I find the compilation is helpful.

I agree. Just another nut trying to tell everyone who they should elect. We have enough Grover Norquist already. Sounds like this guy did so good last time maybe he needs to run again. It really kills me to see people that think just because they run that everyone should listen to them. Most of these types are the ones that get beat. What makes this guy think that he should be the judge and jury?

You post on a political blog to attack someone for expressing his political opinion on his website? Seems a bit hypocritical. He certainly provided a lot more information there than you did here. What makes you think you should be judge and jury?

It may be a bit hypocritical but I am not the one that is trying to tell eveyone around the State how they should vote. I am just tired of people trying to tell me how they think I should vote when they are from North Ga or somewhere else other than South Ga. They don’t have a clue what is going on down here. I am not trying to tell people how to vote. Mr. Loftman is trying to tell me who to elect. If he was from South Ga then I would not have a problem with him telling me how he thinks I should vote.

I would love to see representatives graded by how the bills they vote for benefit their constituents, and how they dont, or better yet, the votes that blatantly disregard the fact that there even ARE constituents…now that would be a good read

How can anyone give Gregory an outstanding rating?! He voted “no” on everything and then showed his fanny by going against the Speaker on the floor! Gregory does NOTHING for his district. In my opinion, the most useless member of the House.